♪ Vlog like a boss, vlog like a boss, you ♪
♪ You can vlog like me too ♪
♪ 'Cause it's easy ♪
- Can we just be honest?
Every time I turn on the camera I'm flipping my hair.
You just don't usually get to see it.
Good morning, good life.
It is a beautiful day.
I am so excited 'cause my husband's coming home tonight
from Easter celebrations,
and I've gotten a lot done while he's been gone.
Not gonna lie about that at all.
But I'm so far ahead of the game right now.
I have one more commitment before he gets home.
Actually, I kinda have, hmm, two,
I'm looking at my calender, can you tell?
Maybe two, but I'm going to do an interview
at AQ headquarters, Skyfall Studios,
and that's for Detail Therapy.
I'm interviewing my landlord. (laughing)
I like saying it like that.
He's so much cooler than that.
He's so much cooler than a landlord.
I'm interviewing Brett Kaufman who is a big deal developer
here in Columbus and so that's gonna be super fun.
I'm gonna head over there. I'm gonna take you with me.
Lucy's doing a lot better.
Lucy has been, I am so tired of talking about this.
So she has a paw issue and it inflames every one in a while.
Blah, blah, blah.
She can't walk when it's inflamed
and then she needs a couple days to recover after that,
but, yeah, she's doing pretty good.
She's doing good.
She's gonna be good for Mommy while she's gone, yeah?
Oh, and then the very most important thing,
I need to pick my husband up from the airport.
He is going to be landing around five o'clock,
and then after that I need to pack 'cause tomorrow,
I'm just picking my teeth, like that is adorable.
Tomorrow I am going to Minneapolis.
I'm so excited.
I have had this speaking engagement on my calender
for a long time now, at least a few months.
A few months, it's been since 2018.
I don't know when in, 2018's sometimes a fog for me
for a lot of reasons, but it's been a while.
It's been a while.
So I'm very excited to go do this gig.
It's called One Squared.
It's at OneSquaredEvent.com
You're probably gonna, yeah,
you're not gonna see this for a very long time. (laughs)
So unfortunately you can't make it
if you didn't know about it,
but it was on my website for like a year, so.
You can always go to AmyLandino.com/events to find out more.
But, yeah, I gotta pick up my husband,
I gotta get a spray tan after that,
and then I'm going to Minneapolis tomorrow.
So, of course, bringing you along.
Oh, I also have a board meeting tomorrow before I leave.
Oh, my goodness, this girl.
Just packin' it in!
You know, you know.
By the way, pro tip, if you do a lot of traveling,
this is not, again, this video is literally not sponsored.
If you do a lot of traveling, I highly recommend TripIt.
I have somebody who assists me with my calender,
but there is nothing like an automatic tool
that will take all of your itineraries,
your hotel, your car, your airplane, your whatevers,
and automatically add it to your TripIt account.
To, like adds it to an account,
it adds it into your different trips,
and you know girl's got a lot of trips,
and then it puts all of the information
including, like, boarding time, not boarding times,
but like takeoff time, how long you're in the air,
what your confirmation number is,
where you even are and all that stuff,
and when to check out of your hotel, I love that one.
It's all appointments on your calender.
So if you're a calender blocker like me,
the TripIt appointments on my calender make me very happy
because I know I did not have to add them myself
and they can't move because they're pretty set in stone.
You can't tell the plane what to do.
The plane leaves when it wants to leave.
Anyway, I have to run.
Lucy, are you gonna miss me?
Yeah, I don't think so.
All right, I have to run and let's go.
(soft music)
- And I believe we are all, all human beings are creators.
It's that all the outside influence,
all the outside noise that, you know,
has determined what's good, right?
And what, you know, is acceptable, or what people pay for
is what keeps people from creating.
- It's amazing to be able to write down,
this would be my best life,
and this is the kind of thing that I want.
And this is the resonating theme.
This is what I wanna see more of.
But what, how did fear play a role in that?
(soft R&B music)
♪ Yeah, yeah ♪
- Well, hello, I am running behind,
so I don't have that much time to talk,
but I am very excited.
I'm breaking out this jumpsuit again.
It's working, it's working, I'm excited,
so I thought I'd show it to you real quick.
Okay, so the only thing that sucks about this hotel
is the terrible lighting where the full-length mirror is,
but I love it.
This is my Club Monaco jumpsuit.
I bought it a year ago in Seattle
and the shirt there too.
I couldn't get all of the wrinkles out
with my steamer which is really disappointing,
but it looks really, really cute with these heels,
so I'm excited.
I'm wearing my mic.
They're gonna wanna put a mic on me.
All the mics.
(soft R&B music)
♪ Baby ♪
♪ Yeah ♪
♪ Pieces of me ♪
Oh, hi.
Even at home, it was like.
- [Woman] We're interested in (speaking faintly)
- Oh, nice.
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(relaxed R&B music)
(laughing)
- [Woman] So, I'm doing that for her.
- [Amy] Aww.
- But it was super great to hear you, I'm like--
- Thank you!
- I'm like stalking you a little bit online, so.
- [Amy] Yeah.
- Good job.
- [Amy] Thank you.
- [Woman] Thank you for like being inspirational
and putting it out there.
- [Amy] Thank you.
- Because I know, like, it's pretty,
it's really hard to be vulnerable like that.
- Yeah, you know.
I appreciate that, because I love to have fun with it.
I just love when it actually effects people.
- Yeah. - It's why I do it.
- Like if you were to look back,
what is the one piece of advice
that you would have wanted somebody to tell you?
Where you are now and where you were?
- I think, more than anything, I always struggle with this,
is asking for help.
Initially, it just felt like I was in my own world,
especially doing something that felt weird.
- [Woman] Yeah.
- And I, you've probably experienced that where you're like,
I wanna do something that's just so weird.
And my mom's not gonna understand
and my friends aren't gonna understand,
and, like, oh man, my boyfriend or my husband or whatever.
And, so I never asked for help.
And so, I just started asking for help.
And I still think about that all the time.
It's just like, what am I doing
that I don't have to be doing?
What am I doing that somebody else is better at than me?
If I can leverage that help or get some advice
or try to do something that will mobilize me faster
with what I have figured out how to do, then you know what?
Like, that is what is going to
make this go faster, further, better.
Trying to do everything yourself,
which is something I'm very much inclined to do,
will hold you back in a lot of ways.
It's really cool to be able to do
as much as you humanly can by yourself,
but you need help, you need people.
And as an introvert and a doer, you know,
like it's that hardest thing to figure out,
but it's the best thing.
It's the most important advice.
- [Woman] Thank you.
- You're very welcome.
- [Woman] It's so nice to meet you.
- Really nice to meet you.
Please let me know if you read it or how you feel about it.
- [Woman] Yeah.
- And, like, just keep in touch with me.
I'm on Twitter and Instagram and all that stuff.
I totally made Shama let me try on her Birdies.
Do you love them?
- [Shama] Tweet, tweet.
I do.
(laughing)
- [Amy] You're so cute.
- Yeah, they're pretty cute.
- [Amy] Oh my god, they're so cute.
Okay, and by the way,
I'm completely obsessed with this green room.
It's the best green room I have ever been in.
Colin.
- What's up?
- [Amy] They're not all gonna be like this, okay?
- Okay.
- Colin's helping me out and I feel like
this is the best green room ever
and we're probably gonna like, make some videos in it, but.
- We've taken so many pictures in here.
- [Amy] I know, so many.
Ooh.
Okay.
I just had to put Lucy outside
because she was getting a little demanding.
It's been a couple of days
since I got back from Minneapolis.
I was just watching some of this video back and,
oh my gosh, I just have to say
that Colin did such a great job.
We're experimenting with a little bit more,
oh, I love when my Apple Watch falls off.
We're experimenting with more,
just ways to document some of the stuff that I do
to give you guys more than just the talking head thing
that happens here in this beautiful office.
Can't get enough of this office.
I'm in here all the time.
(groaning)
He did a really stellar job
and it was absolutely not his fault
that the audio was subpar at best.
I'm a little bummed about that, but, you know,
it's one of those things where
we just kinda have to learn as we go.
We were missing a critical piece of equipment,
so we had to make a quick change and,
so levels were just not where we needed them to be.
And in that situation, there's only so much I can do to help
and Colin did the best he could.
So, really sorry about that,
but I hope that you were able to hear a little bit
of the conversation that I had
with some of the amazing people that came to my book signing
and came to see me speak in Minneapolis.
I really mean it when I say that
one of the most difficult things for me,
and one of the biggest things that
I'm always telling people when they say,
what advice would you give is learning to ask for help.
It's something that is just so not in my nature,
to the point where I come off, hopefully not ungrateful.
I don't know if it's ungrateful,
but I come off like I'm avoiding a person in particular
by not asking for help.
And it's actually, it's not that deep.
It's just, just, I don't know,
it's ingrained in me that I did a lot of things on my own
and what I didn't do on my own, it was really hard,
in and of themselves to ask for help, so I just,
I don't do it very well.
But what I know for sure is it's people like Colin,
it's people like Meg.
It's people like my podcast producer Andrew.
It's people like Nancy,
who's helping me with Instagram design.
It's people like Vincenzo, my husband.
My Instagram husband, my YouTube husband,
my real-life husband, my work husband.
Like, it's people like that that remind me
it's a lot easier, like,
if you don't do everything yourself
'cause you're not good at everything.
(laughing)
So, anyway, I just, I hope that you take that
as a good lesson for you
because continually, I make mistakes with that
because it is my biggest weakness.
And hopefully, you can learn from my mistakes,
which I continue to make, every day.
Okay, I have to give, like, the most random,
I was smiling so hard when I checked the mail.
And usually I get lots of great mail.
You send me mail, brands send me things in the mail.
I got all kinds of stuff.
But look at what I just got.
Um, do these look familiar?
Do these look familiar?
As in a couple minutes ago familiar?
So, I'm an idiot.
I know when I was in that green room
Shama was like, oh what size are you?
Because I was trying on her shoes.
So sneaky, girl.
And then she was like, um, like a couple minutes later,
she's like what's your mailing address?
And I was like, oh, it's blah blah blah blah blah.
And then, like okay.
She bought me the Birdies.
Like, I was trying on her shoes,
like, I don't even care I want to try these on
because I want to know if they're as cool
as everybody is saying that they are
and she totally let me do that
and then, she bought me the shoes!
I'm like, what?
I don't know.
Like, I'm not, when you think about,
like the five love languages, I'm not a gifts person.
But when someone buys a gift,
I don't know maybe this, I don't know.
Now I'm confused.
It's more of just, like, the thought
that anyone would go out of their way
to know something about me and do something
to say I see you.
I heard you.
That was just so wild.
Now my camera's crooked because I moved it around.
I just want you to go tweet Shama
and tell her she is super thoughtful
and also, she's having a baby!
So, that was just, like, so nice.
The next vlog is I'm going to New York
to interview Gretchen Rubin for Detail Therapy
and I'm freaking out.
It is going to be so amazing.
If you have not been around here for a while
you don't know how obsessed I am with habit change
and Gretchen Rubin is my digital mentor
when it comes to that.
If you don't know about The Four Tendencies,
you've gotta look into that.
You've gotta look into that,
because then you'll be like oh my gosh
when you see this vlog.
But I'm taking my two best friends with me
to New York to go to this interview
because it's literally all we've talked about
over brunch for years.
So, this is like one of those moments where
sharing work with your friends, the perks, is amazing.
So, anyways, stay tuned for that
and I will see you in the next one.
Cheers!
(upbeat music)
I'm going to New York today.
Sara and Jesse are coming with me to New York
because I landed an interview
with the one and only Gretchen Rubin.
I may have bought first-class tickets for this flight.
(laughing)
- Ginger, do you wanna go for a walk?
And so the alarm would start
and Ginger would leap to her feet
and be like awesome, yes!
And I've found it's gotta be like, let's go, let's go!